Death of Asma Jahangir is shocking

Alma Romero |Monday, February 12, 2018

Who is Asma Jahangir ?

Jahangir was born in Lahore in January 1952. She was also the first female president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association and had won several awards including the Unesco/Bilbao prize for the promotion of a culture of human rights and the French Legion of Honour.

More recently she spoke out against BBC Persian journalists being put on trial in Iran, as part of her role as United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.

After her graduation from the prestigious Kinnaird College and LLB from the Punjab University in 1978, she hit the headlines when she enthusiastically jumped into the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) against the Zia ul-Haq dictatorship and was jailed.

As the news of her death broke, condolences started pouring in from lawyers, rights activists and politicians. As a daughter, mother and legal expert, she had left irremovable imprints on the judicial and political history of Pakistan, he remarked.

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